Do you think you’re an expert on all things Upper Peninsula? Take this 10-question 906 quiz and see how you fare:

1. This Laurium native was the University of Notre Dame’s first Walter Camp All-American.

2. The Smithsonian reports this Upper Peninsula item is 2,500 years old and weighs 440 tons.

3. This Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner was born in Ishpeming.

4. This NFL team held its 1962 training camp at Northern Michigan University in Marquette.

5. The first centerline painted on a rural road in America was in this U.P. county.

6. He is credited with the discovery of iron ore in Negaunee in 1844.

7. The Detroit Red Wings, including Gordie Howe, played their first outdoor game on Feb. 2, 1954. Where was the game?

8. This U.P.’s name translates to high ground or heaven from Ojibway.

9. This is the oldest city in Michigan.

10. This is the name of the only ski flying hill outside of Europe.

How many did you get right?

If you had 9 or 10 right, you’re a Yooper through and through.

If you had 7-8 right, not bad, but you need to study up.

If you had 4-6 right, you need to travel around this pleasant peninsula and get to know more about it.

If you had 3 or fewer right, you must be a troll.

ANSWERS

1. Legendary football player George Gipp, aka The Gipper, was born in Laurium Feb. 18, 1895, died in South Bend, Indiana, Dec. 14, 1920.

2. The Humongous Fungus, an Armillaria gallica mushroom, near Crystal Falls. Other similar fungi have been found in recent years, but this massive mushroom, the size of three blue whales, is the original, according to The Smithsonian.

3. Glenn T. Seaborg was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of 10 transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Ishpeming on April 19, 1912. Element 106 was named seaborgium in his honor.

4. The Dallas Cowboys.

5. The Federal Highway Administration has acknowledged Kenneth I. Sawyer of the Marquette County Road Commission for painting the first highway centerline in 1917 on what was then M-15 (part of the modern County Road 492).

6. William Austin Burt on Sept. 19 of that year.

7. The Wings played against the Pirates, inmates from the Marquette Branch prison, at the prison.

8. Ishpeming.

9. Sault Ste. Marie, founded by the French in 1668.

10. Copper Peak, located near Ironwood